I ran a cult in OR for many years, so I know these people very well. They were easy to manipulate. On the surface they might be screaming peace, love, BLM, etc., but underneath it all they are emotionally unstable, mentally deranged, and extremely racist.
In 1994, SF voted to expand rent control to include small apartments.
As a result, there was a 15% reduction in the housing supply.
In summary, this guy is a moron.
IMO this is only one part of the story. The other part is lazy teachers who want larger classes (no g&t) and zero accountability for the academic results of low achievers.
The same teachers who shut down schools for 2+ yrs while expressing faux outrage over “Abe Lincoln High”.
Progressivism is a failed political ideology.
They've tested their theories, and then watched them fail.
But instead of course-correcting, they doubled down.
Why? Because they didn’t actually fail.
They did exactly what they were designed to do:
Create a never-ending financial siphon in the name of helping 'marginalized communities'.
A system that enriches politicians, and their NGO counterparts, perpetuating a continuous cycle to make sure the grift never ends.
I watched it fail real time, in my hometowns.
I’m from the Bay Area.
I grew up between Oakland and San Francisco (divorced parents), with a ton of family in Berkeley.
So when I talk about progressive rule, I’m not doing it hypothetically or academically.
I’m talking about home.
I watched their promises play out up close and personal.
And what I see now isn't compassion or social justice.
It is decay and corruption.
Let’s start with the basics:
In Oakland, nearly 75% of Black boys can’t read at grade level.
In one of the most progressive cities in America.
In a state that spends more per student than almost anywhere else.
How do you square that?
How do you defend a movement that claims to be about "equity" and uplifting the marginalized…
but can’t even teach kids to read?
(Spoiler: you don’t.)
What we’re living through now isn’t just political failure.
It’s a moral one.
And instead of self-reflection, the progressive establishment has chosen to double down:
More identity politics.
More grift.
More crime.
More drugs.
More social decay.
More blame-shifting.
More denial.
Zero accountability.
(Because You everything I just said is just a right-wing conspiracy, right?)
They have the power.
They run the cities.
They shaped the schools, the policies, the nonprofits.
They got to run their experiment.
And now that it’s failed?
They’re protecting each other
Not the marginalized people they claimed to care about.
I was born inside this system.
I believe in the values they claimed to stand for. (But clearly don't)
I trusted the institutions they built.
Waking up felt like a personal betrayal.
But I’d rather be truly awake than “woke.”
It's time to call out the collapsing machine that refuses to admit it’s broken.
Because, I think we all know:
You can’t fix what you won’t admit is broken.
But they don’t want to fix it.
They’d rather go down with the ship, clinging to power all the to the bottom.
And the people who are still supporting them?
They’re going down with it too.
Because the ones who still cling to this system aren’t thinking.
They’re feeling.
They’re running on the emotional programming our institutions installed in us since childhood.
Highjacked emotional warriors. Trained to “fight for justice.”
But we not taught the skills to recognize the weaponized emotionally manipulation that winds them up, and then lets them go.
These Lefty, Soggy, Progressives still don’t realize:
The boogeyman they’re screaming about isn’t coming from the outside anymore.
It’s coming from inside the party.
Inside the movement.
Inside the very institutions they built.
The enemy they’ve been warning us about?
It’s them.
Rent control is not only 1) a driver of high housing costs, but also 2) an enabler for the most insane, zero agency individuals to live in economically productive areas and vote for the most economically regressive, leftist policies.
It needs to be dismantled.
@SenecaSpeaks21 This is all about power dynamics- leftist women and low agency men wield power over the Democrat party, incl excommunicating dissenters. David Hogg will not solve this, but the success of Daniel Lurie and Matt Mahan might, at least for the Bay Area.
Rent control is not only 1) a driver of high housing costs, but also 2) an enabler for the most insane, zero agency individuals to live in economically productive areas and vote for the most economically regressive, leftist policies.
It needs to be dismantled.
Deleted a post of a rent roll from a SF apartment building with crazy low rents,
because
there’s only so long you can argue with people who vehemently defend a housing system that results in the lowest income, most vulnerable elderly residents of a city living in squalor.
Absolutely wild how Oakland is essentially a failed state- in the middle of the Bay Area, a stones throw away from SF and UC Berkeley, an active port, bart/highway access, blessed w the best weather and a rich cultural history.
And it's hard to see things changing anytime soon.
The shooting at Pierre Pierre is an extremely sad reminder of where Oakland is as a city and community today. Seeing a restaurant floor covered in blood in our downtown is something that has been normalized and excused away for years now by the elected officials currently leading our city. Oakland voters have no excuses anymore either.
@oshoawakens UC Berkeley is a large part of the problem.
For the past 60 years most of the leaders were indoctrinated at UCB.
In my lifetime:
Houlihan- prison
Reading - UCB
Wilson - UCB
Harris - UCB
Brown - UCB
Dellums - UCB
Thao - UCB (prison?)
Lee - UCB
in the 90s, china was a dangerous place. my aunt went to a salon for a haircut and her motorcycle was stolen immediately while she was in the salon
china learned, started prosecuting, and installed cameras everywhere
look at it now